Grift may refer to: *

Confidence trick A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Confidence tricks exploit victims using their credulity, naïveté, compassion, vanity, confidence, irresponsibility, and greed. Researchers have def ...

Arts and entertainment

* ''The Grift'', a 2008 novel by American author Debra M. Ginsberg * ''The Grift'', a 2008 American movie starring

Sara Downing Sara Nicole Downing (born April 26, 1979) is an American actress best known for her starring role as Jane Cahill in the 2001 television series ''Dead Last''.Barchas, Elizabeth (2001) "TALES FROM THE FLIP SIDE", ''Boston Globe'', August 12, 2001 ...

* "The Grift", an episode of ''Mutant X'', a Canadian/American science-fiction television series

Places

Grift (Fossa Eugeniana) Grift is a drainage canal of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It discharges into the Ponter Dondert near Geldern. It is part of the Fossa Eugeniana, a planned 17th century canal that was to connect the Meuse near Venlo with the Rhine ), ...

, a canal in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *

Grift (IJssel) Grift may refer to: * Confidence trick Arts and entertainment * ''The Grift'', a 2008 novel by American author Debra M. Ginsberg * ''The Grift'', a 2008 American movie starring Sara Downing * "The Grift", an episode of ''Mutant X'', a Canadia ...

, a tributary of river IJssel in Gelderland, Netherlands

People

Evert Grift Evert Grift (21 May 1922 – 27 March 2009) was a Dutch cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics. See also * List of Dutch Olympic cyclists This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who com ...

(1922–2009), Dutch cyclist *

Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne Frances "Fanny" Matilda Van de Grift Osbourne Stevenson (10 March 1840 – 18 February 1914) was an American magazine writer. She became a supporter and later the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the mother of Isobel Osbourne, Samuel Lloyd O ...

(1840–1914), wife of Robert Louis Stevenson *

Henk van der Grift Hendrik ("Henk") van der Grift (born 25 December 1935) is a retired Dutch speed skater. At the 1960 Winter Olympics van der Grift finished 10th on the 500 m and fell on the 1500 m. Not satisfied with training facilities in the Nether ...

(born 1935), Dutch speed skater *

William Webster Van de Grift Billy B. Van (born William Webster Van de Grift; August 3, 1870 – November 16, 1950) was a prominent American entertainer in the early decades of the 1900s. He was a star, progressively, in minstrel shows, vaudeville, burlesque, the New York ...

, birth name of Billy B. Van (1870–1950), American entertainer